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July 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: God’s Eye Is On All Of Us But Only If You Grew Up Believing

Artie and Paul singing about the dead and the dying back in their little town I always hear it as drive towards the place, where we sit and argue at the table over politics and idealism and how opinions are something you are entitled to but I’ll always point out (and never with subtlety) that […]
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March 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Friends Just Can’t Be Found

Here’s the key thing about Bridge Over Troubled Water: when Paul Simon wrote it – he had just two verses. He took it to Art Garfunkel and asked what he thought. Artie told him to go away and write a third verse – told him he had half a good song but it needed finishing. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Friends Just Can’t Be Found, Paul Simon, Poem, Poem: Friends Just Can’t Be Found, Reunion, Saturday Night Live, Simon & Garfunkel, SNL ·

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February 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Simon & Garfunkel: Live at Carnegie Hall 1969 (ep)

Simon & Garfunkel Live at Carnegie Hall 1969 (ep) Columbia/Legacy / Sony Music Entertainment It’s just been the 50th anniversary of Bridge Over Troubled Water so in a low-key marking of that – we have this new digital-only EP – featuring four songs recorded live in a venue famous for so many great live concert […]
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May 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 306 

Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel As “Tom & Jerry”, Singles and Rarities 1958-1962  (2016)  Before they were Simon & Garfunkel it was “Tom and Jerry” for Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel and the enduring number from the late 1950s is Hey Schoolgirl – it gets played in their reunion concerts, and turns up on compilations…they broke up and then reformed a few years […]
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March 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: Music Feuds

I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But the other day I got the call up to present a Music Feature for the Afternoons show. The topic was Music Feuds – and so I discussed The Beatles/Yoko Ono, Simon & Garfunkel, Marvin Gaye’s divorce from Anna Gordy […]
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February 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Art Garfunkel: What Is It All But Luminous

What Is It All But Luminous: Notes From An Underground Man Art Garfunkel Knopf; First Edition edition Something like starting from the beginning feels like the right thing to do… Do you remember that clip of Art Garfunkel talking absolute-fucking-balderdash between takes in the studio? For his memoir he’s essentially done the same thing. Why […]
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July 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 528

Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) Here’s the thing – I had never heard this album. I am a Simon & Garfunkel fan and not to get too defensive, but not only did I already know about 85% of this album I’ve heard the songs performed live by both Paul Simon and Art […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1970, Art Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, LP, Paul Simon, Record, Simon & Garfunkel, Simon And Garfunkel, The Only Living Boy In New York, The Vinyl Countdown # 528, Vinyl ·

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March 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 565

Paul Simon, The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) The first I knew of this was the reissued CD – a few years back now. But until then I didn’t know that Paul Simon had recorded prior to the Simon & Garfunkel albums. I mean, I knew they had cut a single years earlier, together, under a […]
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April 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 715

Art Garfunkel, Fate For Breakfast (1979) A lovely voice, dreamy, quite incredible – and those amazing harmonies and vocal arrangements…but I think so many of us will remember Art Garfunkel as the second fiddle, wingman, nuttier than squirrel shit and with some decent forays into acting and one helluva reading list…well, certainly, post Simon & […]
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February 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 754

Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) A recent junk-store pick-up; a good score for a buck, it’s scratched up a bit but it plays – and I like a bit scuff on these old pre-loved records anyhow. I’ve mentioned, previously, the yarn about seeing Simon & Garfunkel live and what happened when they […]
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July 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #118 – Paul Simon, Auckland, 2013

I had traveled to Auckland to see Paul Simon already – as part of Simon & Garfunkel. And it was great, and special and all of that, but I really wanted to see Paul Simon (not just because I had seen Art Garfunkel solo already). Midway through that show when Paul Simon did a solo bracket with […]
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June 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Steve Gadd Band: 70 Strong

Steve Gadd Band 70 Strong BFM Jazz Steve Gadd celebrates his 70th birthday with a walk through some jazz-lite and fusion-esque pieces. It’s nice – chiefly because as good as this man has been (Paul Simon, Steely Dan) he’s also been boring-as (Eric Clapton, Art Garfunkel) and his solo/leader work on projects like Stuff and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 70 Strong, Album Review, Art Garfunkel, Drums, Gadd Gang, Jazz, Michael Landau, Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Steve Gadd, Steve Gadd Band, Stuff ·
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